Also, Senate bill No. 423, An act to vacate blocks 3, 4, and 94, in Burdett, Pawnee county, Kansas.

Also, Senate bill No. 424, An act authorizing the Executive Council to participate in the semicentennial of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, on behalf of the state of Kansas, and making an appropriation therefor.

Also, Senate bill No. 425, An act to enable Grant county, Kansas, to construct and operate a telephone line and to issue the warrants or bonds of said county therefor.

Also, Senate bill No. 426, An act to enable Morton county, Kansas, to construct and operate a telephone line and to issue the warrants or bonds of said county therefor.

Also, Senate bill No. 427, An act to enable Stanton county, Kansas, to construct and operate a telephone line and to issue the warrants or bonds of said county therefor.

Also, Senate bill No. 428, An act to enable Stevens county, Kansas, to construct and operate a telephone line and to issue the warrants or bonds of said county therefor.

By Senator Fulton: Senate bill No. 429, An act relating to warranties in the application for life-insurance policies. By Senator Findlay: Senate bill No. 430, An act to prohibit persons or corporations from combining, confederating or in any way acting together for the purpose of controlling the price of grain, or for the purpose of dividing territory or profits, or providing for rebates or discounts whereby free and open competition in the purchase and sale of grain might be interfered with or prevented.

By Senator Vincent: Senate bill No. 431, An act to enable Kingman township, in Kingman county, Kansas, to erect a township hall, furnishing and locating the same, and conferring power on township board to issue bonds to pay for the same, and providing for an election upon petition to vote on said proposition.

SECOND READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS.

Senate bill No. 390, An act extending certain ordinances of the city of Humboldt, Kan., over that portion of Humboldt township, in Allen county, Kansas, west of the Neosho river, and giving the police judge of said city.

jurisdiction to try persons charged with violating the same in said territory.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class.

Senate bill No. 392, An act to amend section 959 of the General Statutes of 1901, providing for salaries of certain officers in cities of the second class.

Senate bill No. 393, An act amending section 1 of chapter 183, Laws of 1891, providing for the manner of holding elections for the election of members of boards of education in territory attached to cities of the second class for school purposes and for the payment of the expenses of such election, and repealing said section 1, chapter 183, Laws of 1891, being paragraph 6299 of the Generat Statutes of 1901.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Second Class.

Senate bill No. 394, An act concerning cooperative societies, and repealing sections 1454, 1455, 1456, of chapter 23, of the General Statutes of 1901.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 396, An act relating to the establishment. and maintenance of a Reno county high school.

Referred to Committee on Educational Institutions. Senate bill No. 397, An act to compel railroad companies doing business in the state of Kansas to maintain at least one section man for each mile of track, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act.

Senate bill No. 398, An act to compel railroad companies doing business in the state of Kansas to maintain a patrolman or flagman at each of their freight yards in the state of Kansas, prescribing the duties of said patrolman or flagman, and providing penalties for the violation of this act.

Referred to the Committee on Railroads.

Senate bill No. 399, An act to define the term "mining," and to further provide for the formation of mining companies.

Referred to Committee on Mines and Mining.

Senate bill No. 401, An act in relation to liens for labor and materials furnished.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 402, An act to provide for compensating school-district officers.

Referred to Committee on Education.

Senate bill No. 403, An act establishing the office of inspector of steam-boilers and defining the duties of the inspector.

Referred to Committee on State Affairs.

Senate bill No. 404, An act relating to the transfer of certain moneys in the state treasury.

Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

Senate bill No. 405, An act to vacate certain blocks, streets and alleys in the city of Hanover, in the county of Washington, state of Kansas.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class.

Senate bill No. 406, An act to authorize the maintenance of actions to cancel of record and quiet title to real estate as against the liens barred by the statute of limitations.

Senate bill No. 408, An act to provide for a public administrator.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Senate bill No. 409, An act concerning the Kansas Children's Home Society and making an appropriation therefor for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1904, and June 30, 1905.

Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate bill No. 410, An act to amend sections 3, 7, 28 and 37 of chapter 286 of the Session Laws of 1901, relating to railroads and other common carriers, to repeal said original sections of said act, and for other purposes. Referred to Committee on Railroads.

HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING.

House bill No. 209, An act to empower the mayor and city council of McCune, Crawford county, to transfer $316.50 of the money now in the city treasury belonging to the water-works fund to the sinking-fund.

Referred to Committee on Cities of the Third Class.

House bill No. 266, An act to provide for the erection of a bridge across the Republican river between sections 32 and 33, in Lawrence township, in Cloud county, Kansas,

north of Rice, Kan., and authorizing the board of county commissioners of said county to levy a tax and provide funds for the same.

House bill No. 272. An act authorizing the county commissioners of Linn county, Kansas, to construct and maintain a bridge across Big Sugar creek and appropriate money for the payment of the same.

House bill No. 251, An act to amend an act approved February 29, 1868, entitled "An act providing for the selection and summoning of grand and petit jurors."

House bill No. 262, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 1 of the Laws of 1889, the same being paragraph 1239 of the General Statutes of 1901, relating to the protection of records of the several counties of the state of Kansas, and regulating the business of abstracting.

House bill No. 293, An act to amend sections 2 and 3 of chapter 11 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1868, the same being an act relating to attorneys at law, and to repeal original sections 2 and 3 of said act.

Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

House bill No. 227, An act to amend section 1 of chapter 170 of the Laws of 1877, amending an act entitled "An act for the regulation and support of common schools." Referred to Committee on Education.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

Senator Smith, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, offered the following reports:

MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred House bill No. 72, An act in relation to the carrying of concealed weapons, have had the same under consideration, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 288, An act prescribing a rule for the determination of the residence of voters who are officers or employees of this state or any municipal subdivision thereof, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, House bill No. 137, An act to amend section 6, chapter 68, General Statutes of Kansas, 1901, relating to the release of mortgages, and repealing said original section, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

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Also, House bill No. 128, An act amending section 3193 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1899 (Dassler's compilation), in relation to the removal of property belonging to wards residing in other states and territories, and to enable non-resident guardians to obtain the property of their wards, and to repeal said section 3193, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommenda tion that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 297, An act amending section 3392 of the General Statutes of Kansas, of 1901, and repealing said section 3392, in relation to insurance, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 382, An act to provide for interrogatories, answers thereto, and their admission as evidence in civil actions, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, House bill No. 311, An act to amend section 9 of chapter 2, General Statutes of 1868, entitled "An act relating to attorneys at law," and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, House hill No. 61, An act to provide for keeping certain statistical records by the register of deeds of Rice county, Kansas, and fixing the compensation therefor, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 366, An act to regulate the sale or disposition of any portion of a stock of merchandise or the fixtures connected therewith otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade in the regular and usual prosecution of the seller's business, and to regulate the sale or disposition of an entire stock of merchandise or the fixtures connected therewith in gross, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 340, An act to amend section 3 of chapter 129 of the Laws of 1901, being the third paragraph of section No. 1611 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1901, said chapter being entitled "An act providing for the fixing of commissioner districts and the election of county commissioners of the several counties in the state of Kansas, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act," and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed.

Also, Senate bill No. 363, An act to authorize and empower the board of county commissioners and the county treasurer of Johnson county to transfer the moneys now in the special fund known as the C. F. Sumner road fund to the general fund of said county, and instruct me to report the bill back to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed. F. DUMONT SMITH, Chairman.